meat

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The flesh (muscle tissue) of an animal used as food, or a food designed to replicate its taste and texture (like plant-based meat).

   A large portion of domestic meat production comes from animals raised on factory farms.

2. 2
   noun

   A type of meat, by anatomic position and provenance.

   The butchery's profit rate on various meats varies greatly.

3. 3
   noun

   Food, for animals or humans, especially solid food.

   meat and drink

4. 4
   noun

   A meal.

   And hit cam to passe, thatt Jesus satt at meate in his housse.

5. 5
   noun

   Any relatively thick, solid part of a fruit, nut etc.

   The apple looked fine on the outside, but the meat was not very firm.

6. 6
   noun

   A penis.

   He sits me on the floor (the shower is still beating down on us). He lays me down and slides his huge meat into me.

7. 7
   noun

   The best or most substantial part of something.

   […]it is time to begin "A Dialogue between Viator and Piscator," which is the meat of the matter.

8. 8
   noun

   The sweet spot of a bat or club (in cricket, golf, baseball etc.).

   He hit it right on the meat of the bat.

Etymology

From Middle English mete, from Old English mete (“food”), from Proto-West Germanic *mati, from Proto-Germanic *matiz (“food”), from Proto-Indo-European *meh₂d- (“to drip, ooze; grease, fat”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian Miit (“meat”), Danish mad (“food”), Faroese and Icelandic matur (“food, meal”), Norn mader (“food”), Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish mat (“food”), Gothic 𐌼𐌰𐍄𐍃 (mats, “food”). A -ja- derivation from the same base is found in Middle Dutch and Middle Low German met (“lean pork”), from which Dutch met (“minced pork”) and German Mett (“minced meat”) derive,…